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...intention was to scorn theatric devices, even program notes. He put his text into Latin for the sake of still greater obscurity; illusion was to come from the music alone. But a part of Stokowski's genius is expressed in his willingness to walk where angels fear to tread. It is nothing new for him to appear to know more about a piece of music than the man who wrote it. Much of Stravinsky's Oedipus, despite its rigid pattern, is powerful dramatic music, worthy of translation. So, for Philadelphians, last week Stokowski proceeded to translate it, using modernistic idioms...
Give Me Yesterday. Upon entering Producer Charles Hopkins' theatre, one must always tread lightly for fear of shattering some delicate fantasy. Having moved the ephemeral Mrs. Moonlight to another playhouse, last week Producer Hopkins presented Alan Alexander Milne's Give Me Yesterday, produced in London in 1923, by the Harvard Dramatic Club in 1929, called Success until a few days before its New York premiere. It relates the pastel-tinted tale of the Rt. Hon. R. Selby Mannock, M. P. (Louis Calhern), who has decided that the world is too much with him, that it would be better...
...success makes the world smaller for explorers. Only the airless peaks of the Himalayas, the cold hearts of the polar ice-packs and a few large jungle-guarded areas of the Amazon basin have escaped the eye and tread of civilized man. Only a few other regions have escaped man's mapping and surveying instruments: the vast forests and swamps of northeastern Siberia, the fastnesses of northeastern Tibet, the bandit-infested northern reaches of the Gobi Desert, the sandy centre of Australia, the eastern slopes of the unmapped Andes, the vast Patagonian icecap stretching over South America...
...plot smells of melodrama; the honest devotee of the public had gone too far and tread on the wrong person's toes. Machination followed recrimination and Mr. Kresel has been found wanting. Of course he may be guilty. Somehow, the courageous actions and brief plea for public confidence of a man who is held for circumstances over which he seemingly had no control make a continuous pattern with his actions in the past. And the past, as someone naively remarked--it was not Mr. Kresel--is the judge of the present...
...daring financier was Jonathan Ogden Armour, heir to the meat-packing fortune of famed, hard-boiled old Merchant Philip Danforth ("P. D.") Armour (1832-1901). Sometimes J. Ogden would rush in and buy where more conservative tycoons feared to tread. Result: The great packing concern his father and he had built up found itself at the War's end overstocked with high-priced meat for the Allies. Armour's personal $150,000,000 fortune, involved in grain as well as meat, dwindled by $1,000.000 a day for some 130 days. He died in London in 1927 insolvent...